Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Pennsylvania/Medical missionaries to Community Partners (Fall 2021)
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- Course name
- Medical missionaries to Community Partners
- Institution
- University of Pennsylvania
- Instructor
- Kent Bream
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- History, Global Health, Biography
- Course dates
- 2021-09-01 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-01-15 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 16
Global health is an often repeated goal for modern leaders of countries and non-governmental organizations. Despite its modernity, this goal has been elusive for more than 100 years and despite scientific advancement. As we have experienced, in epidemics and pandemics, this becomes a greater focus as a focus on data, science, and expertise tells us socially and politically how to make other populations healthier. Critics highlight language of a new imperialism through aid programs, exoticizing through medical tourism, and the reification of traditional social hierarchies of injustice and inequity. We will examine the evolution over time and place of people and programs to improve health of “underserved” populations globally. Traditionally categorized as public health and efforts to achieve a just society, we will develop an assessment method for programs and conceptualize future partnerships on both a local and international stage. Students should expect to question broadly held beliefs about perceived good and service. Students will explore these issues as they research an individual, organization, or topic in global health and publish a new wikipedia article on it.
Timeline
Week 1
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 1 September 2021
- In class - Introduction to the Wikipedia assignment
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.
Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
- Evaluating Wikipedia
- Assignment - Get started on Wikipedia
Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)
- Milestones
This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.
Week 2
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 8 September 2021
- In class - Discussion on plagarism and accidental plagarism
- Assignment - Review the rules for health topics
Week 3
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 15 September 2021
- In class - Discussion on content gaps
Week 4
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 22 September 2021
- Assignment - Exercise on Copyediting
Week 5
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 29 September 2021
- Assignment - Start drafting your contributions
Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have questions using the Get Help button at the top of this page.
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9
Week 6
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 6 October 2021
- Assignment - Exercise- Finalize your Research Subject
Finalize your topic / Find your sources
Identify the subject of your wikipedia article, find a missionary or global health scientist in the library that does not currently have a wikipedia page. Upload the subject on canvas and add it to the course page on wikipedia. Start a 'page' with the name in your sandbox.
Week 7
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 20 October 2021
- In class - Discussion about Wikipedia
Week 8
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 27 October 2021
- Assignment - Everyone has started writing
Everyone has begun writing their article drafts in their sandbox. Wrtie yoru lead section, add an outline with Early Life, Mission, and Legacy. Include your first references.
Week 9
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 3 November 2021
- Assignment - Peer review two articles
You will be assigned peer reviews in canvas. Go to the classmates sandbox and review their lead section. Provide feedback via canvas
Week 10
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 10 November 2021
- Milestones
Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.
- Assignment - Continue improving your article
Exercise- Adding links
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; reorganize the text to communicate the information better; or add images and other media.
Week 11
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 17 November 2021
- Assignment - Respond to your peer review
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.
Resources:
- Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
- Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.
- Assignment - Begin moving your work to Wikipedia
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the "mainspace."
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13
Week 12
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 1 December 2021
- Assignment - Polish your work
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!
- In class - In-class presentation
Week 13
- Course meetings
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- Wednesday, 8 December 2021
- Milestones
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.
- Assignment - Final article
It's the final week to develop your article.
- Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final check-list before completing your assignment.
- Don't forget that you can ask for help from your Wikipedia Expert at any time!
- Assignment - Exercise Promoting your article